December 24, 2015

The Black Exorcist

Kid twists his neck 180 degrees and hugs person behind him, just because he can.

What You Know About Skarping?

The hillbilly redneck sport that combines water-skiing, basketball and jumping Asian Carp fish.

December 2, 2015

Bastards of the Party (2010)

Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, Bastards of the Party.

Bastards of the Party draws its title from this passage in “City of Quartz”: “The Crips and the Bloods are the bastard offspring of the political parties of the ’60s. Most of the gangs were born out of the demise of those parties. Out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party came the Crips and the Bloods and the other gangs.” Bastards of the Party traces the timeline from that “great migration” to the rise and demise of both the Black Panther Party and the US Organization in the mid- 1960s, to the formation of what is currently the culture of gangs in Los Angeles and around the world.

The documentary also chronicles the role of the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI in the evolution of gang culture. During his tenure from 1950 to 1966, Chief Robert Parker bolstered the ranks of the LAPD with white recruits from the south, who brought their racist attitudes with them. Parker’s racist sympathies laid the groundwork for the volatile relationship between the black community and the LAPD that persists today.

November 24, 2015

Japanese Sneaker Culture


Not much into sneakers these days, but I do remember stopping by Skit in Osaka back in 2010 and having my mind blown.

November 13, 2015

Aliens Are Real Says African School Children

Twenty-something years ago a bunch of kids form Ariel School in Zimbabwe encountered some "scary" aliens. Watch as they recall that day with professor of psychiatry, Dr John Mack.

Goosebumps.

November 1, 2015

Studying Dead Rotting Meat Is Both Amazing And Gross

"Do you guys want to go and see a dead body?". Because you can if you hit play on the above video which showcases the largest body farm in the world, where researchers study human decomposition in order to help law enforcement.

FYI, it's quite graphic.

Fly My Pretties. Almost.

Alexis Noriega gives you what Red Bull has be falsely claiming for years, by designing and building this amazing pair of pneumatic (gas or pressurized air) articulating wings that spring to action at the press of a button.

She also reckons she'll have a video online soon on how to build you own. Keep and eye on The Crooked Feather for instructions.

Q-Tip Talks to Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock & That Guy Who Hasn't Won An Oscar

I'll save you some time. Skip through some terrible music of today until you get to around 17 minutes when Q-Tip, aka The Abstract, gets his chat on with Dave, Chris and Leo. Topics include boxing, music, comedy and other tidbits. It's weird.

September 19, 2015

12 Minutes of Fuck Philadelphia

The background to this. Back in 2006 a bunch of comedians were performing in Philadelphia, a city that's notorious for acting up at live events, booing performers and generally just being assholes for the sake of it. After watching a handful of comedians perform the crowd began to grow restless and booed the next two performers off the stage. Step up Bill Burr, who a couple of minutes into his set begins to get the same treatment. But instead of calling it a night he decides to unload a fury of insults like no other human has ever unloaded on a crowd. The result is fucking legendary and needs to be seen if you have not already. Amazing.

September 14, 2015

Listen To Juan Epstein

If you need some nerdy, hip hop, comedy podcasts in your life while you cook, workout or waste away your life sitting on public transport, then listen to the gold that is Juan Epstein. It's the best shit-talking time-waster the internet has to offer.

Hosts Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg have interviewed everyone from Ice Cube and MCA of the Beastie Boys to heavy-chested porn stars and Rhys fuckin' Darby. In their words it's 'the place to go if you want to hear stories you have never heard, hear people react to and answer questions you can't believe anyone would have the nerve to ask. These are some of the most unique interviews you ever will hear.'

Below is a list of some of the better episodes I've enjoyed while drying dishes and lifting weights off my chest:

Jay-Z (2010)
Questlove & Chris Rock (2014)
A-Trak (2015)
Salaam Remi (2015) 
Bill Burr (2010)
Kanye West (2013)
Fat Joe (2008)
Aziz (2011)
Aziz (2012)

September 4, 2015

Stop Scrolling And Watch This

Thank you to the person who has too much time on their hands, and no girlfriend, for making this.
Shot Phila